Nostr isn't federated, it is decentralized. Federated protocols are like Email or Mastodon/Pleroma/Activitypub — there’s generally a domain name at the end of them.
Yes, search is heavily sharded...
there's an open source reverse palantir now, have you seen this? https://github.com/ShinMegamiBoson/OpenPlanter
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